Fennec: Now 'way awesome'

[Bateluer]

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/09/2...oid-is-awesome-speedy-and-allows-for-updates/

Not that it wasn't before, given its status as an alpha build.

On Friday, the Director of Firefox tweeted about the newest build of Fennec, said that it “just got way awesome” and wasn’t joking. Not only is this latest build substantially faster than previous versions, it also prompts you for updates when they are released. Instead of having to try and keep up with the latest nightlies, simply install the version below and it’ll prompt you to update going forward. Can’t beat that right? Now if only Flash 10.1 would work with it./

 

[foghorn67]

Comments on the Droid-Life post don't look so encouraging.

 

[Bateluer]

Comments on the Droid-Life post don't look so encouraging.

True, it appears Dolphin HD is going to be Android's premiere browser for a while longer. Fennec is still in a prerelease state though, so any final judgements will have to be held onto until after it hits its RTM release.

 

[Phobic9]

I downloaded this earlier this morning and deleted it 5 minutes later. Fennec still has a long ways to go before it's worth using and it's far from "awesome" right now IMO.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I agree with the fact that it's definitely alpha. Zooming is slow enough that it's unusable for day to day use.

Also try to save an image... it pops up a GTK dialog. No Joke.

 

[Oyeve]

Crashes, locks my vibrant, awesome......no.

 

[murphy55d]

Far from it. I couldn't even get it to load one page on my Droid. Has since been removed and not thought about.